CopyPublished | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2002 Fla. App. LEXIS 13274, 2002 WL 31039464
...Accordingly, Dickens had the right to appeal the suspension that arose from his conduct as a career service employee, even though the Department initiated disciplinary action after the reclassification of his position to selected exempt service. Cf. § 110.604, Fla....
CopyPublished | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 2582, 2004 WL 384894
...Anon was employed as an attorney by the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, and later by its successor, the Department of Children and Families (“the agency”), from 1989 until October 2, 2003. On October 3, 2003, Anon was terminated in accordance with section 110.604, Florida Statutes (2003)....
...We treat the petition as an appeal from a final order denying Anon’s petition for a Chapter 120 hearing and a petition for certiorari to review the agency’s procedure for a name-clearing hearing. For the following reasons, we affirm the order denying a Chapter 120 hearing and deny the petition for certiorari. Section 110.604, Florida Statutes (2003), provides: Employees in the Selected Exempt Service shall serve at the pleasure of the agency head and shall be subject to suspension, dismissal, reduction in pay, demotion, transfer, or other personnel action at the discretion of the agency head. Such persons are exempt from the provisions of[C]hapter 120. (Emphasis added). It is undisputed that Anon was a selected exempt employee. However, Anon claims that section 110.604 no longer applies to her because she is not currently an employee, nor was she an employee when the agency began making public statements about her termination....
...ogatory public statements after he or she had been suspended, demoted, transferred, or suffered a reduction in pay would remain exempt from the provisions of Chapter 120, while an employee who had been dismissed would not. Nothing in the language of section 110.604 supports such a distinction....
